McDonald Jones Homes - The new thread

Balified · Mar 30, 2015 3:24 pm

Gosh swarmski, that's a hard one!
We went with having a projector and large screen to get a cinema feel to our home theatre because we just looooooove our family movie nights! We also enjoy watching normal telly shows on the big screen too but not often as we have a large screen telly in the lounge room for that!

http://ourasiancreation.blogspot.com.au

Havana3 op · Mar 30, 2015 3:40 pm

Hi all
have you guys who have gone through local council rather than CDC been charged extra for going through council? Or anyone one started with CDC been non compliant with them
And then had to go through council and been charged extra like a variation? TIA

swarmski · Mar 30, 2015 3:56 pm

Balified

Gosh swarmski, that's a hard one!
We went with having a projector and large screen to get a cinema feel to our home theatre because we just looooooove our family movie nights! We also enjoy watching normal telly shows on the big screen too but not often as we have a large screen telly in the lounge room for that!

http://ourasiancreation.blogspot.com.au

Yer, i'm leaning towards projector at the moment.

Sidenote: wow @ how fast your garden has grown lol.

Balified · Mar 30, 2015 4:00 pm

I know, crazy ha! I really do think I've developed a green thumb over the years lol. Are you building in Sydney? If so I can highly recommend Sydney Hifi to do your home theatre fit out they were fantastic with our other build so we used them again with this one

http://ourasiancreation.blogspot.com.au

6acrebuild · Mar 30, 2015 4:33 pm

Hi guys,
We have our final contract signing on Wednesday, do we need to have the official sign off from the bank then also?
Our bank is stuffing us around atm, it should have been finalised last week and still waiting on the valuation.
Can we still sign the contact for mdj?

Nat and Dan · Mar 30, 2015 4:42 pm

Hey 6acre, I can tell u from experience our bank stuffed us around for more than a month!!! We had done everything on our part and just waiting for the final paperwork took forever. They ended up finalizing it the last day before we incurred the fee for going over the prep time.

We have had 3 progress payments now and all three have taken forever to process.

Good luck with ur bank! The paperwork for ours had to be in before we submitted to council, which was after contract signing.

Nat and Dan · Mar 30, 2015 4:44 pm

J and A, brickies on site today???

Our bricks were delivered (yay!!!!!!) finally someone remembers our house!!!

They are so much darker than I remembered... Cannot wait to see them start.

How long does bricking take anyways?

cwiseman · Mar 30, 2015 4:49 pm

Nat and Dan

J and A, brickies on site today???

Our bricks were delivered (yay!!!!!!) finally someone remembers our house!!!

They are so much darker than I remembered... Cannot wait to see them start.

How long does bricking take anyways?

Ours took three weeks! So excited to see the next step!!!

J and A · Mar 30, 2015 5:02 pm

Davidr13

Good news. Land has been registered as of today. Hope to settle the purchase with in a week. The fun starts soon

Congrats, settlement next:)

J and A · Mar 30, 2015 5:05 pm

Nat and Dan

J and A, brickies on site today???

Our bricks were delivered (yay!!!!!!) finally someone remembers our house!!!

They are so much darker than I remembered... Cannot wait to see them start.

How long does bricking take anyways?

Hey Nat and Dan, Congrats for getting bricks:) No Brickies onsite for us yet. Looks like the plasterboard inside has slowed as well. This close to Easter I think everyone winding down.

cwiseman · Mar 30, 2015 5:06 pm

Yeah we had no plasterboard today either. Insulation almost finished just parts of the roof to go but drain pipes connected around the house

6acrebuild · Mar 30, 2015 5:09 pm

Thanks Nat and dan,
so we can still sign the final contract, even though we are waiting on the bank? Or should I get a clause out in the contract "subject to finance?

jomarshall · Mar 30, 2015 6:00 pm

Balified

Nice one Jo, will you have access to your block to put the pool in after or will u do it before the build?

http://ourasiancreation.blogspot.com.au

Plenty of access

So will be doing after the build

jomarshall · Mar 30, 2015 6:01 pm

milby

jomarshall

We think fibreglass but are open to all suggestions and all recommendations!
At the moment it's looking like a 9.4x4.2 compass with in floor cleaning lol

Suggest research into compass in floor cleaning. It sounds amazing in theory but really only eliminates a small aspect of pool maintenence for a great expense.
(Second hand opinion from my neighbour who went with Tranquility)
My 2 cents though - steer clear of the company that is on the highway near Mcdonalds Thornton and also the concrete pool builder at Warners Bay.

Ohhhh thanks for that! Doing lots of research! Yep staying clear of both of them, have also heard lots of bad stuff!

jomarshall · Mar 30, 2015 6:02 pm

http://www.compasspools.com.au/our-secr ... -pool.html

Michelle, the in floor cleaning!

Daz4Bec · Mar 30, 2015 7:02 pm

Nat and Dan

J and A, brickies on site today???

Our bricks were delivered (yay!!!!!!) finally someone remembers our house!!!

They are so much darker than I remembered... Cannot wait to see them start.

How long does bricking take anyways?

Ours was done in a week. There was 8 guys there. Perhaps some if them should head south?

Daz

J and A · Mar 30, 2015 8:01 pm

Daz4Bec

Nat and Dan

J and A, brickies on site today???

Our bricks were delivered (yay!!!!!!) finally someone remembers our house!!!

They are so much darker than I remembered... Cannot wait to see them start.

How long does bricking take anyways?

Ours was done in a week. There was 8 guys there. Perhaps some if them should head south?

Daz

I'm not sure we are that lucky in Sydney area. Brickies are very rare!

Allypally · Mar 30, 2015 8:44 pm

swarmski

So tell me people....TV or Projector for your media room?

Anyone got some pics of what they went?

If you are going to have a dedicated Home Theatre setup, I would look at projector rather than a TV.
With a projector, you can have very large screens. i.e. 100-120". The same size in a TV will be very expensive
If not dedicated, then TV.
Either way, look at a 4K setup. i.e. Ultra High Definition.

Lot927 · Mar 30, 2015 8:55 pm

No progress update from us today. Worked late so no chance to drive out to the block. Congrats on everyones progress, things seem to be moving along.

I dont understand why my PCI is still so far away, we have been stuffed around with dates and with the Gerflor almost done on Friday (assume finished today), probably another clean (i hope because there is a tonne of dust inside ), some more painting where they stuffed up and hopefully the carpet last. I would hope the builder is not dumb enough to install carpet when they still have to repaint an entire room. In fact you would hope it would be done the day before PCI so then its all ready to go...

cwiseman · Mar 30, 2015 8:58 pm

Lot927

No progress update from us today. Worked late so no chance to drive out to the block. Congrats on everyones progress, things seem to be moving along.

I dont understand why my PCI is still so far away, we have been stuffed around with dates and with the Gerflor almost done on Friday (assume finished today), probably another clean (i hope because there is a tonne of dust inside ), some more painting where they stuffed up and hopefully the carpet last. I would hope the builder is not dumb enough to install carpet when they still have to repaint an entire room. In fact you would hope it would be done the day before PCI so then its all ready to go...

Easter shutdown?? Maybe they don't count fri through Monday! If that's the only time they take! I thought we would've had a bit more done today too but very quiet around our way!
Can't wait to see pics once house set up